Texas A&M reports that the majority of America’s dairy workers are immigrants: Nearly 77,000 immigrants worked on dairy farms in 2014 out of about 150,000 employees nationwide, according to a…
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More from economist Mark Thoma: a new paper from the Economic Policy Institute finds that workers are doing more and not getting paid for it. Over the…
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton is not running for President (and that’s o.k.—we’ve got Bernie, and that’s plenty for me!). But it would be fun and…
Here’s a bill Senators Thune and Rounds should work to change. Senate Appropriations has moved a funding bill that quadruples the length of the form that taxpayers…
Hey, Blue Ribbon K-12 panel! I know the legislators among you are desperate to engineer any excuse you can get not to take the single most important…
Regal Entertainment Group is now searching moviegoers’ bags at its cinemas. Two clips reveal the fruitlessness of this overreactive security theater: Jeff Bock, box office analyst for theater-industry research firm Exhibitor…
I’m heading out to visit with some Aberdeen-area Berniemaniacs this evening. They may find the new Public Policy Polling results interesting. PPP finds that Hillary Clinton is…
Remember that letter John Thune, Mike Rounds, and 45 other Senators sent to Iran’s mullahs last March to undermine President Barack Obama’s effort to negotiate a deal to…
The guy who tells you not to base your hiring decisions on résumés probably has a crappy résumé. That guy is Senator Marco Rubio, whose…